Sculptural Needlefelt
wild birds & animals - in your hand
puppets - small, animated beings
May 1st Saturday - Finger Puppets
one day: tiny animal puppets
May 29/30 Garden Birds
weekend: a lifelike garden bird
July 31 Saturday Finger Puppets
one day: tiny animal puppets
August 21 Saturday Finger Puppets
one day: tiny animal puppets
October 2/3 weekend Glove Puppets
weekend: animal or bird hand puppets
Foxes, badgers, blackbirds & wrens - what is your favourite creature?
You can make one come alive in your hands - puppets have a curious ability to take on a life of their own
One day workshops: £65
Weekend sessions: £138
Saturday & Sunday 10am - 4pm
Fee includes delicious home-made food Material/tool costs - depends - about £5
B&B at the farm down the road extra
Please contact me to check availability
before booking with a £30 deposit |
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The Old Sunday Schoolroom
Courses are held in the schoolroom & studio workshop, which is insulated with wool, plastered with wattle & daub, the hazel & clay taken from the field.
Making a bird or animal you inevitably get closer to its nature, because you need to understand both shape & structure, analyse the intricate details of fur & plumage & capture its special look or ‘jizz’.
All you need is a fine felting needle, a bird/animal book with really good pictures, a small pile of wool & some heartfelt observation of the lovely details of eyes, noses, ears and feathers.
A felting needle has tiny barbs that draw the wool fibres back & forth, working the wool into a firmly felted mass. I use natural wool from rare breeds of sheep as well as the plant-dyed colours of madder, indigo & onion skins.
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